Hippocrates... is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how he could have done this except by some form, or anticipation, of the method [of exhaustion].


Achimedes (1920)

Thomas Little Heath Quotes

Hippocrates... is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how...

Hippocrates... is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how...

Hippocrates... is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how...

Hippocrates... is said to have proved the theorem that circles are to one another as the squares on their diameters, and it is difficult to see how...